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Fishing Spider

Dolomedes

Photo by Jimmie
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Field Notes

Description:

Spider

Habitat:

Rocky area, in dried up creek bed

Reference Links:

Dolomedes

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (3)
Jimmie
Thanks, I'll have a look!
Gordon Dietzman
This is one of the nursery web spiders, probably a fishing spider (dolomedes). You may be able to narrow your ID by starting on this page (http://bugguide.net/node/view/1963/bgimage) and progressing through the collection. Nice photo by the way! Fishing spiders are big!

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Mission
International Spider Survey
Photographed
PublishedOctober 16, 2011

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